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Matsuo Basho
By: Madeleine, Andrew, and IoanFacts About Matsuo Basho
Born in 1644 in Ueno in Iga province
Basho was his pen-name for Munefusa
Basho was his name because the name of the room he wrote his haikus in was called a basho-an, a hut made out of plantain leaves
Began composing in 1667 in Edo (modern-day Tokyo)
Wrote renga poems and haibun poems
Used jokes and plays-on-words because that was the poetry style
He supposedly reached a sense of heightened awareness of nature and interpreted it into his hiaku
He was the first person to interpret Zen Buddhism into his haiku
Died November 28th, 1694 A.D.
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Basho's Haiku
Banana Tree Haiku
A banana plant in the autumn gale -I listen to the dripping of rain
Into a basin at night.
As They Begin to Rise Again
As they begin to rise againChrysanthemums faintly smell,
After the flooding rain
A Ball of Snow
A Ball of SnowYou make the fire
and I’ll show you something wonderful:
a big ball of snow!
Basho's Death Poem
Sick on my journey,only my dreams will wander
these desolate moors
A Wild Sea
A wild sea-In the distance over Sado
The Milky Way
But For a Woodpecker
But for a woodpeckertapping at a post, no sound
at all in the house
(Translation of But For a Woodpecker)
しかし、キツツキの
音が、ポストにタッピング
で家にあるすべての
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"Death." Mark Twain Quotations. Web. 31 Jan. 2011. http://www.twainquotes.com/Death.html
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